| NOWADAYS | Currently away, Don's abroad (8) |
| KYLE | __ Canning, handyman currently away from Ramsay Street (4) |
| ONLEAVE | Currently away from work (2,5) |
| OFFDUTY | Currently away from work |
| OOO | Employee's status meaning "I'm currently away" |
| IAN | _ Beale, original EastEnders character who is currently away from Albert Square (3) |
| JESUS | Matthew-_, John Paul McQueen's son, currently away from Hollyoaks (5) |
| ABERDEEN | Overhead display by ancient dons' squalid house, little inside extremely significant in book and song (8,6,2,3,8,4,4,5,4,2,2) |
| GRANDSON | Dons rang (anag) - relative (8) |
| ESCALOPE | See dons get free cut of meat (8) |
| ACADEMIA | One accountant intended upsetting dons etc. (8) |
| MAFIOSOS | What completes Liam of Oasis: wrestling dons? (8) |
| SPLENDID | First-class Latin dons pass papers (8) |
| PASSABLE | Fish with a twist dons blanch okay (8) |
| APPOSITE | Apt to make an assumption that dons mock (8) |
| DIAMONDS | Maid dons new suit (8) |
| NEEDLING | Short of Liberal dons? That's annoying (8) |
| SUBURBIA | University dons confused US rabbi in city outskirts (8) |
| EXCITING | Conservative dons on the way out? Thrilling! (8) |
| OUTRAGED | Scandalized paper dons exposed (8) |
